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Last year, the Norwegian singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche released a somber divorce album called Please. His new video for “Lucky Guy,” a sort of bittersweet meditation on how things went right before they went wrong, follows his clip for “Bad Law,” from last year. This one captures Lerche and two backing musicians, in stately black-and-white, playing… More »

Later this month singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche will release his new album Please, an album inspired by the end of his marriage. We’ve already heard “Bad Law” and seen its depressing autobiographical video. Now he’s got a new one titled “Sentimentalist” which includes the especially defeated line: “I’ll be damned if I fight / I’ll be… More »

Later this year Norwegian singer/songwriter Sondre Lerche will release Please, inspired by a recent divorce, and now you can watch the video for its single “Bad Law.” The Evan Savitt-directed video finds Lerche at a luxurious party, which fits with the song’s initial dance-pop cheer. But just like how the chorus is interrupted by crashing… More »

Norwegian singer Sondre Lerche’s friendly indie-pop has always been slightly askew, but never has one of his songs absolutely smacked me across the face like “Bad Law.” The leadoff track from his forthcoming Please is a treatise on divorce that segues from righteous hand-clap disco-funk into jarringly aggressive outbursts. “When crimes are passionate/ Can love… More »

We last heard from Norwegian singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche when he turned in his annual holiday cover, a “jazzy, off-kilter” version of the Miley Cyrus hit “Wrecking Ball” — a modern standard indeed! Now he’s back with original music of a slightly drearier, more atmospheric variety. Lerche and Kato Ådland did the soundtrack for filmmaker Mona… More »

In recent years, the Norwegian singer-songwriter Sondre Lerche has made a holiday tradition out of sending us a new cover every year. He picks out a track from the year that’s just ending, records his version, and sends it to us. In years past, he’s taken on songs from Animal Collective, Owen Pallett, and Beyoncé. More »

The always-eclectic Øya collected dozens of big name international acts and local bands to Oslo’s Medieval Park and neighboring clubs over four days last week. Among them: Björk, A$AP Rocky, the Stone Roses, Chromatics, Baroness, Bon Iver, Odd Future, Florence + The Machine, and Frank Ocean, who ended his set after four songs due to… More »

Acclaimed Brooklyn-via-Norway singer/songwriter Sondre Lerche turns 30 in a few weeks, and to celebrate he’s releasing his first live album — Bootlegs — along with reissues of his first four albums (on vinyl for the first time) with bonus tracks. Today we’ve got one of those tracks, a demo of “John, Let Me Go” recorded… More »

Norwegian popsmith Sondre Lerche, it would seem, is the type to keep unreleased songs on his hard drive for years and then just give them away on a whim. Lerche recorded the tricky, intricate “Boxing Day” during the sessions for his 2007 album Phantom Punch, but he’s only letting us hear it now. Grab it… More »

Sondre Lerche’s new video for “When The River” is a pretty, soft-focus splicing of Super 8 film (from drummer David Heilman’s childhood) and Lerche performance footage shot by his Lerche’s, Mona. It’s a clip that underscores the heartsickness of nostalgia and the mellow sadness of Lerche’s music, all presented with vivid flecks of color and… More »

In what’s become something of an annual holiday tradition, Norwegian artist and Stereogum buddy Sondre Lerche has once again gifted us with a cover of one of his favorite songs of the year. In previous years, he’s taken on Animal Collective’s “Bluish” and Owen Pallett’s “Lewis Takes Off His Shirt.” This year, though, he’s applied… More »

Back in March we premiered “Domino,” from Sondre Lerche’s upcoming self-titled LP. In that post I mentioned how Lerche had embraced Brooklyn a bit more on his new record. The same applies to his video for the brisk “Private Caller,” which looks like it was shot at Williamsburg’s Union Pool. (You can see a sig… More »

As most songwriters will tell you, it takes a lot of work to make easy, breezy pop music that actually sounds effortless. No one understands this more than Sondre Lerche, a songwriter who, since… More »

Sondre Lerche is prepping the followup to 2009’s Heartbeat Radio. The sometime-Brooklynite (he was here for the ‘Gum Bowl last year) embraces his adopted home a little bit more on his upcoming self-titled LP. He recorded his album at Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s omnipresent Rare Book Room studio (here’s a list of some of who’s recorded there… More »

One of the things we’re most proud of this year is The ‘Gum Bowl, our inaugural celebrity charity bowling tournament and concert. (You can still watch all the videos, which, you should.) One of our finest participants on a long list of fine participants was Mr. Sondre Lerche. Not just because his name rhymes with… More »

One more tease before the awesome videos come. Yesterday you saw photos from the inaugural ‘Gun Bowl charity bowling tournament. Soon you’ll see all the action, the highlights, the endlessly amusing indie-celeb encounters in motion picture. We’re really excited about them. To be real for a second: The main objective behind The ‘Gum Bowl, aside… More »

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